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and, frankly, what i'm talking, we're talking about affirmative action in higher education. we are talking about the desegregation of elitism. that's what we are really talking about. the elite sector. is racial affirmative action going to be something that's going to substantially affect poor racial minorities? answer, no. it's not. because, in fact, to take advantage of affirmative action to already have to have been doing pretty good. i mean, to take advantage of affirmative action in higher education, you had to been a pretty good student to even be in the running. so we are going to need to supplement racial affirmative action. i mean, just because it doesn't do everything, don't get rid of it. don't say it doesn't do everything, therefore, throw it away. no. it is a relatively, it's my view, a modest intervention. it helps some sectors of historically disadvantaged groups, but we need other things to address other sorts of inequalities in american life. and it should not be forgotten at all that there are millions and millions and millions of poor white people in the u
and, frankly, what i'm talking, we're talking about affirmative action in higher education. we are talking about the desegregation of elitism. that's what we are really talking about. the elite sector. is racial affirmative action going to be something that's going to substantially affect poor racial minorities? answer, no. it's not. because, in fact, to take advantage of affirmative action to already have to have been doing pretty good. i mean, to take advantage of affirmative action in higher...
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to take advantage of affirmative-action in higher education, you had to have been a pretty good student to even be in the running. we are going to need to supplement racial affirmative-action. just because it doesn't do everything, don't get rid of it, don't say it doesn't do everything, therefore throw it away. it is a relatively -- it is my view a modest intervention, it helps some sectors of historically disadvantaged groups, but we need other things to address other sorts of inequality in american life. it should not be forgotten at all that there are millions and millions and millions of poor white people in the united states who need help. and we need to fashion interventions to provide them help. for goodness sake, don't get rid of racial affirmative-action because what about poor white people? i get hot under the collar. there are some people who say racial affirmative-action doesn't help, doesn't help poor black people or poor white people. you would think these are raging egalitarian minded folks. the only time that they even hint at being interested in equality in american li
to take advantage of affirmative-action in higher education, you had to have been a pretty good student to even be in the running. we are going to need to supplement racial affirmative-action. just because it doesn't do everything, don't get rid of it, don't say it doesn't do everything, therefore throw it away. it is a relatively -- it is my view a modest intervention, it helps some sectors of historically disadvantaged groups, but we need other things to address other sorts of inequality in...
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i would have had a great education, though, if you had kept me until the end, and i want to thank you and the ranking member for your leadership. we have appreciated it and admired it in our chamber, and also chairwoman stabenow for your effort and sustained effort in getting us to this point. i feel privileged as others have said to be part of the farm bill conference committee and join those who said this is the way we should should be doing our wn congress. this is the way we are going to be able to regain the confidence of the american people, not with the rock throwing and brick throughing and the screaming, but working together in a bipartisan, bicameral way, and that is the expectation of our farmers and ranchers. the farmers and ranchers in rural communities driving colorado's $40 billion agricultural economy, it is critical that we work through our differences to complete this process. mr. chairman, if i could sum up what i heard in the nearly 0 # listens sessions we've had all across colorado on this topic, the message is very, very simple. work together to give us the certa
i would have had a great education, though, if you had kept me until the end, and i want to thank you and the ranking member for your leadership. we have appreciated it and admired it in our chamber, and also chairwoman stabenow for your effort and sustained effort in getting us to this point. i feel privileged as others have said to be part of the farm bill conference committee and join those who said this is the way we should should be doing our wn congress. this is the way we are going to be...
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you must do that as part of the public education process. so you have already, as it were, crossed that bridge of insularity that flows from the exceptions and the majesty. but with all due respect, you are not the oracle at delphi telling us what the gods mean. you are a very privileged person with this extraordinary exceptional opportunity. and now can have a conversation while it's in the public interest as opposed to your own concerns about the maple down to it the isn't snippet phobia, personal embarrassment. i don't think that's particularly way response to all the schoolchildren who will be denied the opportunity their entire lifetime of seeing the supreme court of the united states in action. final thing i'll say is the court, and he used to be a lively area of debate, looks to international law or international expense. i think everybody on the court, all nine with its okay to look at what the supreme court of canada has done. the jury is in. it works. it's worked for 20 years. all these concerns are really quite ephemeral and not w
you must do that as part of the public education process. so you have already, as it were, crossed that bridge of insularity that flows from the exceptions and the majesty. but with all due respect, you are not the oracle at delphi telling us what the gods mean. you are a very privileged person with this extraordinary exceptional opportunity. and now can have a conversation while it's in the public interest as opposed to your own concerns about the maple down to it the isn't snippet phobia,...
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so my question is whoever wants to answer my brought commentary or at least educate me in a different lesson, i'd love to have it. >> in january 1963, the communists did something they hadn't done before. they stayed and they fought and as a result, five americans were shut down. we americans were killed. kennedy sees us on the front pages of the times and says what is going on here, i thought we were winning this war? over the course of the next several months, in fact, beginning january and february, he will hear varying reports from white house officials, state department officials and military officials. giving really contradictory evidence about the state of the military campaign in vietnam. >> john foster dulles had recently died in the super air powered in chantilly, virginia was being built. the president announced he would be named dulles airport. for a while, when kennedy took over, he didn't want to name it after a crusty old warrior. there is pushback and paella decision was made to name it after dulles. you can still see the film clip of kennedy opening the airport with e
so my question is whoever wants to answer my brought commentary or at least educate me in a different lesson, i'd love to have it. >> in january 1963, the communists did something they hadn't done before. they stayed and they fought and as a result, five americans were shut down. we americans were killed. kennedy sees us on the front pages of the times and says what is going on here, i thought we were winning this war? over the course of the next several months, in fact, beginning january...
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>> guest: he has w a whole bunch of issues related to education, state teacher contracts. rebuilding the jersey shore, gay marriage, that were raised in his first term, fought out to somerm degree but not completely resolved. i think if we do view christie as someone who wants to be president or certainly could run for president in 2016 it will be really interesting to watch especially the first year of the second term before he gets sucked into the 2016 whirlpool. what he tries to prioritize to maintain the narrative he has from the first four years governing as conservative as reformer in a democratic state. >> host: barbara buono, is his challenger. anything to add to her chances. >> guest: we have to see what she says about the race after it is over. she has a candidate of haul martials of person democrats would ordinarily support. she is experienced legislator and a high-profile woman in a state that has not elect ad female democratic governor. she never got any support from the national party with the exception of the group emilys list. she can lay down some interest
>> guest: he has w a whole bunch of issues related to education, state teacher contracts. rebuilding the jersey shore, gay marriage, that were raised in his first term, fought out to somerm degree but not completely resolved. i think if we do view christie as someone who wants to be president or certainly could run for president in 2016 it will be really interesting to watch especially the first year of the second term before he gets sucked into the 2016 whirlpool. what he tries to...
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it may be fun, but if you borrow money to, you know, send a kid to school, to go to educate yourself in a way, to house your family, those are good, solid investments so if you use money now, which we've borrow at a cheap rate, and hopefully there's not another shut down or default to raise rates, which is, you know, tremendously negative impact on what ted cruz and others brought about, but if you borrow money now to rebuild the infrastructure of the country, to invest in education, invest in some, you know, basic science whether it's biomedical science or other forms of science to create jobs down the road, those are all good reasons to borrow, and so this today port impolice tick and an tag niche is fool hardy. you can't say i'm for jobs, jobs, jobs in the american economy to work. at the same time, you strangle it of funding. you know, the whole government shut down by some estimates cost 24 billion dollars in economic activity. people lost jobs, lost paychecks, with respect hired, and we're still reeling from that. >> host: on the subject of the shut down, how do you any the 201
it may be fun, but if you borrow money to, you know, send a kid to school, to go to educate yourself in a way, to house your family, those are good, solid investments so if you use money now, which we've borrow at a cheap rate, and hopefully there's not another shut down or default to raise rates, which is, you know, tremendously negative impact on what ted cruz and others brought about, but if you borrow money now to rebuild the infrastructure of the country, to invest in education, invest in...
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things like the education system, taxing system and things that make u.s. companies competitive as competitors around the world and that is another subject we can spend days on as well what to have a level playing field between the bank and tariffs and the devotee to repatriate markets is kind of the foundation of all of this and it's up to the u.s. companies to be as competitive as we can and the american government certainly to help us be as competitive as we can to create manufacturing jobs and job growth. i kind of look at it in those three steps of foundational work. but the opening of markets is fundamental to starting the process. we can be competitive. we export an awful lot from the united states. we work hard every day on internal labor agreement and we have spent a lot of time in the education system. but if we don't help the markets out, the rest of this is sort of benign. >> what you see as the competitive threats that would come to be from the imports? >> we love free trade and competition. that only made us strong over the last 50 years from
things like the education system, taxing system and things that make u.s. companies competitive as competitors around the world and that is another subject we can spend days on as well what to have a level playing field between the bank and tariffs and the devotee to repatriate markets is kind of the foundation of all of this and it's up to the u.s. companies to be as competitive as we can and the american government certainly to help us be as competitive as we can to create manufacturing jobs...
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my first expense with mba was in 1979 through its education program. back then as a commercial banker, i took a residential underwriting course followed by income property finance course in 1980. in 1983, run the cord recruited me into mortgage banking as an income property mortgage banker. those of you who know him, in these 1996 chairman know just how convincing he can be. shortly after joining ron's team i attend my first in the annual convention. how things have joined since those early years. 10 years later in 1994, i attended my first mba commercial real estate finance conference. i've attended it almost every year since then. to the -- since 2008 mba serve as a educational guide and networking opportunity that brought value to my career whether as a commercial banker or as a mortgage broker, and it still does today. since that time, i've learned the important role that advocacy can play. and advancing the business and advancing the industry as a whole. i've had the opportunity to vote -- devote much more of my time to mba's advocacy efforts in r
my first expense with mba was in 1979 through its education program. back then as a commercial banker, i took a residential underwriting course followed by income property finance course in 1980. in 1983, run the cord recruited me into mortgage banking as an income property mortgage banker. those of you who know him, in these 1996 chairman know just how convincing he can be. shortly after joining ron's team i attend my first in the annual convention. how things have joined since those early...
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our economy with education debts that are unbelievable. understand what senator sanders is saying. corporations do receive credits, deductions, exclusions that could result in them not having to pay their corporate income tax. i think one of the critical factors that congress can continue to address here is corporate tax reform. question, as it relates to defense spending, there is no question in my mind that additional reductions in defense spending are going to have to happen. they will have to be done in a way that focuses on a strategic goal of protecting this country going forward. we're back to the same situation of balancing out spending reductions, whether in defense versus food stamps. we have to find a balance between all of our spending and stay on a path that is fiscally sound for the future of our children and grandchildren. the caller brings up for a sanders and an editorial of his from last week. do not cut the big benefit programs. we must not balance the budget on the backs of the most full marble people in our country. what do you think ernie sanders -- bernie san
our economy with education debts that are unbelievable. understand what senator sanders is saying. corporations do receive credits, deductions, exclusions that could result in them not having to pay their corporate income tax. i think one of the critical factors that congress can continue to address here is corporate tax reform. question, as it relates to defense spending, there is no question in my mind that additional reductions in defense spending are going to have to happen. they will have...
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, so health centers hired education and outreach people as part of their outreach for health personnel. i would say it's definitely related cause to get expanded health care. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman, thank you madam secretary for being here. my understanding is that a lot of the companies insurers that have been offering plans in the individual market, the ones sending out these notices, are actually repositioning themselves in the health insurance exchange to offer alternative plans. is that -- >> yes. >> and in addition to those insurers who have been in the individual market, you have a lot of other companies and insurers providing plans in health insurance market? >> that is true. >> so the way i look at this. i went to buy oriole tickets when the season was underway. they closed the window. i didn't have to go home because they opened another window a few feet away. so essentially what's happening is people are coming up on the renewal period and getting up to the window, the individual market and being told that window is closed but if you go right
, so health centers hired education and outreach people as part of their outreach for health personnel. i would say it's definitely related cause to get expanded health care. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman, thank you madam secretary for being here. my understanding is that a lot of the companies insurers that have been offering plans in the individual market, the ones sending out these notices, are actually repositioning themselves in the health insurance...
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to encourage higher education to be part of that research component. and i think americans are eager to make things again. i'll bet you and i both hear the same thing over and over again, how can we have a strong economy if we don't make things? you know, you can have a strong economy, parts of the economy that don't make things but not only do you need to make things but there's something that really defines who we are in a positive way when people see americans making things that not only are heavily competitive here but are competitive all over the world and i think that's the kind of thing, senator coons, you and i are talking about, the bipartisan effort we need to make. i don't know any republicans or any democrats anywhere or any independents who said we don't need to worry about making things, don't want need to worry about a competitive economy. actually private-sector jobs should be the number-one domestic goal of the federal government today and the jobs we're talking about are a significant component of that because they lead to lots of oth
to encourage higher education to be part of that research component. and i think americans are eager to make things again. i'll bet you and i both hear the same thing over and over again, how can we have a strong economy if we don't make things? you know, you can have a strong economy, parts of the economy that don't make things but not only do you need to make things but there's something that really defines who we are in a positive way when people see americans making things that not only are...
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so, madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the health, education, labor and pensions committee be discharged from further consideration of s. 1590, a bill to require transparency in the operation of the american health benefit exchanges and that the senate proceed to its immediate consideration, i further ask consent that the bill be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. harkin: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: reserving the right to object, again, my good friend from tennessee is raising another effort here to divert resources from the implementation of the affordable care act which we can then use to fix the very problems that he has mentioned. again, i'd point out we report jobs data on a monthly basis, but now this is going to be a different standard, i might also point out that in medicare part d we released those data, enrollment data on a monthly basis. i do agree with my friend that there should be accountability for the 3
so, madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the health, education, labor and pensions committee be discharged from further consideration of s. 1590, a bill to require transparency in the operation of the american health benefit exchanges and that the senate proceed to its immediate consideration, i further ask consent that the bill be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. harkin:...
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issues, and until these inherently biased laws are repealed, we have a responsibility to advocate and to education. our work will not be complete until we insure that no one has to live with the fear of death based on his race or his age or a that is justified under stand your ground laws. i look forward to the day when every american can live knowing that the arc of justice bends toward fair and unbiased laws. i yield back. >> thank you, congressman. next up is my colleague, congressman luis gutierrez from illinois. he represents the illinois 4th district, immigration task force and leader in an effort to pursue comprehensive immigration reform. he serves on the house judiciary committee. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you, chairman durbin and ranking member cruz. thank you for the opportunity to testify on this extremely important issue. , i extend my condolences to the families who lost loved ones. ms. fulton and ms. mcbeth, i am deeply sorry for your loss, and i appreciate your presence here today, and as one dad to another, i say to mr. martin that i, too, feel your pain and thank y
issues, and until these inherently biased laws are repealed, we have a responsibility to advocate and to education. our work will not be complete until we insure that no one has to live with the fear of death based on his race or his age or a that is justified under stand your ground laws. i look forward to the day when every american can live knowing that the arc of justice bends toward fair and unbiased laws. i yield back. >> thank you, congressman. next up is my colleague, congressman...
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essential hospitals and the american academy of pediatric, the only counsel against handgun violation, the education fund, the newtown action alliance, moms demand action, and many, many more. they'll be included in the record without objection. i also like to say that when solicitation was set out for those members publicly listed members of al throbbing tell me their status or position on this volunteering, if they wish, that information some ask their statement be part of the record. they will at the request. those who didn't make the request will not be included. again, i don't want to create any chilling effect on participation and american politics. it's important we preserve all of our constitutional rights do so. i thought it was appropriate to find put to the member of the organization stood by the policy position that was stated. the hearing record is going to be open for one week to accept addition statements. if there no further comments from the panel or the colleagues. i thank the witnesses for attending and my colleagues for participating. the hearing stands adjourned. [inaudible conv
essential hospitals and the american academy of pediatric, the only counsel against handgun violation, the education fund, the newtown action alliance, moms demand action, and many, many more. they'll be included in the record without objection. i also like to say that when solicitation was set out for those members publicly listed members of al throbbing tell me their status or position on this volunteering, if they wish, that information some ask their statement be part of the record. they...
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i majored in english education. i wanted to be a schoolteacher and i wanted to go on to graduate school and get graduate degree and eventually teach in college. but i never finished graduate cool. >> host: why? >> guest: because i guess work out of the way. i came to washington for the six-week job and then i was going to go back to new york city. and i thought i'd work there. and i had hoped i'd work at the ford foundation and continue my graduate work. but i guess i just got so caught up. at the time i worked for senator maccarthy, it was before, during and after the vietnam war and his presidential campaign. it's really quite a turbulent time. in fact, i am convinced that mÉtis and 68 is probably one of the most years we have her there too. i have respect for maccarthy when he set up for the president against the war in vietnam and that really -- all of us on this staff were working 24 hours. so i put aside those that maybe there's still redemption. maybe i still have time. >> host: tania davis who is the produc
i majored in english education. i wanted to be a schoolteacher and i wanted to go on to graduate school and get graduate degree and eventually teach in college. but i never finished graduate cool. >> host: why? >> guest: because i guess work out of the way. i came to washington for the six-week job and then i was going to go back to new york city. and i thought i'd work there. and i had hoped i'd work at the ford foundation and continue my graduate work. but i guess i just got so...